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March 6, 2026

Simple Table Decoration Ideas With Dried Flowers

I always seem to end up with a few dried flower decorations around my home this time of year since my birthday is in January and then there’s Valentine’s Day a month after (yay for flowers on those special days)

My husband always tries to pick up some flowers for me on those special days and of course I put them in a vase with some water as soon as he brings them. I try to keep them around and enjoy them for as long as possible but once they start drying I find that some of the flowers and greenery still look very pretty so I start wondering what else can I do with them.

Dried flower decorations may not be for everyone and I have to admit they don’t always work for me either because let’s be honest, they can sometimes look a bit tacky (eek, so sorry to any tacky arrangements out there) But I think if we keep it simple and even add in a few extras like candles, ribbons or even marbles like I did below, we can end up with beautiful long lasting decorations, for those of us that are not completely against dry flower arrangements that is 🙂

Let’s get to it…

Simple Table Decoration Ideas With Dried Flowers

I love how this yellow rose kept its beautiful color once it dried. It was part of a bouquet of roses for Valentine’s Day that were all different colors and this was the brightest in the bunch.

I took my yellow rose once it dried and carefully pulled off a few of its petals, trying my best not to tear them. Then I combined those with a few marbles in a small votive. I topped that with what was left of my rose for a tiny, colorful and oh so cute decoration for any side table, window or anywhere else you’d like to decorate in your home.

I love!

Here I took almost all of the petals off of this dark pink rose and used them to surround a short, white candle on a small white plate.

I thought the rose looked so pretty when I pulled off most of its petals and seeing the center part of it so I decided to place it right in front of my candle making it a focal point for this simple and classic decoration.

I had a bouquet of light pink roses for my birthday that dried to this almost rusty beige shade and surprisingly didn’t start drooping down while they dried out. I ended up removing all of the leaves from their stem and placed them in this cylinder vase.

I think baby’s breath stems can look so pretty all on their own.
These baby breaths were not quite dry just yet so I put them separate in a vase with some water while they dried out some more.

This is one of those really super simple ideas that I think work so lovely for those of us that enjoy simple decorations.

And lastly one more simple baby’s breath centerpiece, this one hanging out in a much smaller vase.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

Simple Table Decoration Ideas With Dried Flowers - The Semi Organized Ant

March 5, 2025

Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice

Hi friends! Today I’m sharing a very simple floral arrangement that I brought together on Valentine’s Day. It truly is very simple in my opinion. It consists of one green stem and one stem of tiny clustered purple flowers! I’m honestly not sure if I should even call it a floral arrangement but hey, I’m going with that for now I guess 🙂

So my husband bought me and my daughter 2 small bouquets for Valentine’s Day. They were both very pretty, but I’ve realized something…I never really like all of the greenery that many times comes in floral bouquets. Especially the fern. (I disliked it so much that I had to write that in bold, lol) Don’t get me wrong, I love many greens and fillers used in arrangements but not so much the fern.

Does that ever happen to you, someone gives you flowers and you can’t bring yourself to completely loving it?

But anyway, it never quite looks beautiful, for me atleast, and kind of takes away from the rest of the flowers in the bunch. I’m always tempted to just take it right out of the arrangement but then I would feel horrible not doing anything with it or dare I say throw it out! Gasp!! no, no, no.

I love flowers way too much to do that.

Since I don’t always love the entire bouquet I’ve started taking them apart whenever I receive flowers and making a few different arrangements in multiple vases. (Yay for more flowers around the house) And you know what? Now I’m loving the fern.

If you’ve visited my blog before you may already know that I don’t decorate much with real flowers. Sadly I just don’t have the green thumb for them so it’s almost always faux for me. But because of a few special days (Valentine’s and Mother’s day, thank you hubby) I’m lucky enough to enjoy real flowers in my home for at least a couple of weeks.

Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice

For my arrangement I’m using one leather leaf fern and a purple statice stem.

I placed the fern into my vase, laying it off to one side.

If you read the first part of this blog post then you know that I wasn’t a fan of ferns, but this arrangement has really changed my mind about that. I’m amazed with its size and beautiful almost triangle shape or even Christmas tree shape to it.

My purple flower, named purple statice, (trust me, I had to search for that name) has small clusters of tiny flowers. They have a pretty tough stem that kept it upright but I went ahead and tucked it in between the little branches of my fern to help it stay upright even more because I thought that it just looked so so pretty and interesting in that position.

And that’s it for this very simple floral arrangement.

I’ve been able to enjoy my flowers for over two weeks now with minimal maintenance at all. I’ve changed the water maybe three times and the beautiful green and purple shades have kept very well.

I hope this motivates you to play around with floral bouquets and see what you can come up with the next time someone gives you flowers too!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

May 8, 2024

A Few Random Photos – Florals and a Candle

A Few Random Photos –

Florals and a Candle

Hello Friends!

Today I’m sharing a collection of random photos that I’ve taken through out the years mainly just for fun or to remember things that I’ve made for inspiration for future projects.

I normally share a lot of decorating ideas with faux flowers but I’ve probably mentioned that I love real flowers just as much, if not more. Sadly though, I have a black thumb, so it’s all about faux for me on most days.

I do however love to take pictures of real flowers whenever I get the chance. I’ve taken so many photos of real flowers in various places but they are honestly just sitting in my google photos app….probably waiting for me to print them up and frame them or create a physical album with them, which of course I never get around to doing!

So for now I figured it would be fun to share them here with you along with a few other random fun things.

A Few Random Photos –

Florals and a Candle

I stopped to take this first picture while walking to the park with my daughter recently.

A beautiful white cherry blossom tree!

Hot pink flowers caught in a supermarket of all places. I believe they are called petunias, (but don’t quote me on that 🙂

The next two pictures are close ups of yellow and purple coneflowers that I took near the Lake George area last year while on vacation with my daughter and husband.

Here I nestled a candle in colorful confetti.

(it’s a good thing I never light candles, otherwise this would be a pretty bad idea…… Safety first guys, don’t light a candle over confetti, or any other flammable items)

For this next one I took a few blue flowers from a large hydrangea as well as some extra leaves from various flowers and attached all of that to a few old stems. Basically, I made a few faux flowers with a a bunch of scraps I had saved.

There’s something so fun about being able to make use of things that I may have otherwise tossed out!

A brown faux plant photographed by my window, just for fun.

I love this faux plant. I found it at Target about a year ago and picked it up for fall decorating but honestly I liked it so much that I had ended up keeping it out for months after.

Well that’s it for this one friends!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!